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This list is specific to the EU. For a list of people from Europe who had significant impact outside their home country, see List of important Europeans. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This list is for well known Europeans. ...

This is a list of well-known people from the European Union. It should only include people who did not die before their country's entry into the EU or one of its predecessors. This includes:

• French, West Germans, Italians, Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgians after 1950
• Irish, Britons, Danes after 1973
• Greeks after 1981
• Spaniards and Portuguese after 1986
• East Germans after 1990
• Finns, Swedes and Austrians after 1995
• Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovakians, Slovenians, Maltese and Cypriots after 2004
• Romanians and Bulgarians after 2007

For State specific lists, see List of people by EU state. Austrians Belgians Catalans (includes Spanish, French and Andorran citizens) Cypriots Czechs Danes Dutch people United Kingdom people English people Scots Welsh people Irish people (includes people from the Republic of Ireland) Estonians Finns French people Germans Greeks Hungarians Irish people (includes people from Northern Ireland) Italians Latvians Lithuanians People from...

Actors

• Monica Bellucci, (born 1964)
• Klaus Maria Brandauer, (born 1944)
• Gérard Depardieu, (born 1948), French actor
• Anna-Leena Härkönen, (born 1965)
• Hildegard Knef, (1925-2002), actress, singer, writer
• Sophia Loren, (born 1934), Italian actress
• Marcello Mastroianni, (1924-1996)
• Sophie Marceau, (born 1966), French actress
• Franka Potente, (born 1974), heroine of Run Lola Run

Monica Bellucci Monica Bellucci as Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded Monica Bellucci (born September 30, 1968) is an Italian supermodel and actress, born in Città di Castello, Italy. ... Klaus Maria Brandauer (born June 22, 1944) is an actor and director. ... Gérard Depardieu (born December 27, 1948;   pronunciation?) is a French actor. ... Anna-Leena Härkönen (born April 10, 1965) is a Finnish writer. ... Hildegard Knef Hildegard Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. ... Sophia Loren in 1955 Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is considered to be the most famous Italian actress of all time and, at the age of 70, continues to be a top sex symbol. ... Marcello Mastroianni in 1958 Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor. ... Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau (November 17, 1966) is a French actress. ... Franka Potente (born July 22, 1974 in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actress. ... Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt, lit. ...

Architects

• Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)

Walter Adolph Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ...

Artists

• Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
• Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist

Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ... Hugo Pratt (June 15, 1927 - 1995) was an Italian comic book creator and the creator of Corto Maltese. ... Corto Maltese is a fictional character, a sailor-adventurer created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt. ...

Composers

Computer Pioneers

• Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
• Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux

Jarkko Oikarinen, known on IRC as WiZ, was the developer of the first Internet chat network, called IRC, short for Internet Relay Chat. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is best known for initiating the development of the Linux Operating System. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...

Filmmakers

• Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Michelangelo Antonioni, (born 1912), Italian film director
• Luis Buñuel
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Federico Fellini
• Renny Harlin
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Aki Kaurismäki
• Mika Kaurismäki
• Wolfgang Petersen, (born 1941), German film director
• Istvan Szabo
• Tom Tykwer

Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1st, 1943) is a French film director. ... Michelangelo Antonioni (born September 29, 1912 in Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian film director, writer and painter. ... Portrait of Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portoles (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker. ... Fassbinder 1977 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982), German movie director and actor, was one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was a famous Italian film-maker and director. ... Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola on March 15, 1959 in Riihimäki, Finland) is a film director and producer mostly known for action movies. ... Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953, Roanne, Loire - France) is a French film director. ... Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957) is a Finnish film director. ... Mika Kaurismäki (born September 21, 1955) is a Finnish film director. ... Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. ... István Szabó is a film director, screenwriter and occasional actor born in Budapest, Hungary, on 18 February 1938. ... Tom Tykwer (born May 23, 1965) is a German film director. ...

Musicians

• Andy McCoy
• Paul McCartney, (born 1942), member of The Beatles
• Ville Valo
• Michael Schenker, (born 1955), guitar player of UFO and solo career
• Luciano Pavarotti, (born 1935), Italian tenor

Andy McCoy, alias Antti Hulkko (born October 11, 1962), is a Finnish musician. ... Paul McCartney, as photographed by John Kelley for the 1968 LP The Beatles (aka The White Album). Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and ushering in the British Invasion of American popular music. ... Ville Valo Ville Hermanni Valo (born November 22, 1976) is the vocalist, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish love metal band HIM. Ville Valo was born on the 22nd of November 1976, in Helsinki, Finland at 8. ... Michael Schenker (born January 10, 1955 in Sarstedt, Germany) is a hard rock and heavy metal guitarist of UFO and a founding member of Scorpions. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Luciano Pavarotti The Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (born October 12, 1935), is one of the most famous living opera singers. ...

Philosophers

• Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
• Karl Popper
• Immanuel Kant, German philosopher

Hannah Arendt in her early adulthood Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975) was a German political theorist. ... Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. ... Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a German philosopher and geographer from Prussia, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ...

Politicians

• Gerhard Schröder, (born 1944), federal chancellor of Germany (SPD)
• Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936)
• Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Jacques Chirac
• Margaret Thatcher

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder [] (born April 7, 1944), a German politician, has been serving as Chancellor of Germany since 1998. ... Silvio Berlusconi   listen? (born September 29, 1936 in Milan) is the current Prime Minister of Italy and is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a party which was established for his entry into politics. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932) is a French politician. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, also Leader of the Opposition from 1975, and the only woman to date to hold those positions. ...

Royalty

• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• Juan Carlos of Spain
• Lady Louise Windsor

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), styled HM The Queen (born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant and head of state of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent... King Juan Carlos I His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón), styled HM The King (born January 5, 1938), is the reigning King of Spain. ... Lady Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor (born 8 November 2003), styled The Lady Louise Windsor, is a member of the British Royal Family. ...

Sportspersons

• Kimi Räikkonen - racing driver
• Marcus Grönholm - rally driver
• Mika Häkkinen - racing driver
• Juha Kankkunen - rally driver
• Lasse Virén - runner
• Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
• Annika Sörenstam, golf player
• Dino Zoff, (born 1942), Italian soccer player

Kimi Matias Räikkönen (born October 17, 1979) is a Finnish Formula One race car driver. ... Marcus Grönholm (born February 5, 1968 in Kauniainen) is a Rally car driver from Finland. ... // Biography Mika Häkkinen at the 2000 United States Grand Prix Mika Pauli Häkkinen (b. ... Juha Kankkunen was born in Laukaa, Finland on April 2, 1959. ... Lasse Virén (born July 22, 1949) is a former Finnish athlete, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics. ... Michael Schumacher (born January 3, 1969) is a German Formula One (F1) driver. ... Annika Sörenstam Annika Sörenstam  listen? is a professional golfer from Sweden. ... Dino Zoff (born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli, Italy) is an Italian legendary football goalkeeper and the oldest ever winner of the World Cup as a captain of the Italian national team in Spain in the 1982 World Cup. ...

Writers

• Günter Grass, (born 1927), German author
• Tove Jansson -- children's author of Moomin fame
• Imre Kertész, (born 1929), Hungarian novelist
• Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
• Ilkka Remes, (born 1963), Finnish author

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. ... Tove Marika Jansson (August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001) was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. ... Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. Kertész best-known work, Fateless (Sorstalanság) describes... Emilio Lussu (Armungia, Cagliari, 1890 - Rome 1975), a soldier, a politician and a writer from Sardinia, Italy. ... Ilkka Remes is a Finnish author. ...

Other notables

• Karl Fazer -- confectionery manufacturer
• Fredrik Idestam -- industrialist, founder of Nokia

See also: List of important Europeans, List of people by nationality, List of people by EU state This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is one of the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. ... This list is for well known Europeans. ... There are a variety of articles listing people of a particular nationality. ... Austrians Belgians Catalans (includes Spanish, French and Andorran citizens) Cypriots Czechs Danes Dutch people United Kingdom people English people Scots Welsh people Irish people (includes people from the Republic of Ireland) Estonians Finns French people Germans Greeks Hungarians Irish people (includes people from Northern Ireland) Italians Latvians Lithuanians People from...